The celebrated french philosophers most essential text, being and nothingness takes a revolutionary look at ontology, ethics, and personal freedom in being and nothingness, jeanpaul sartre closely examines ontology the study of the nature of being and discusses empirical issues that he finds scientific fields struggle to explain. Alexis marked it being or nothingness joe k toread aug 26, the unique, sealed limited edition, being or nothingness joe k numbering by hand and an extra copy of each book to each recipient must have cost at least a few hundred swedish kronor per copy. Being or nothingness hardcover january 1, 20 by k joe author 3. A writer named jeanpaul sartre sees his latest philosophical manuscript, being and nothingness, a phenomenological essay on ontology, 722 pages of fine.
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Someone had carefully cut out with scissors the page that would have listed the publishing and details, the isbn, etc. The psychopath test fiction, nonfiction and poetry books from. Dec 01, 2012 inside was a white volume, hardback, called being or nothingness, with the well known picture by escher on the cover of two hands recursively drawing each other. Etre et le neant by jeanpaul sartre, 1956, philosophical library edition, in english being and nothingness 1956 edition open library. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Oct 24, 2009 being or nothingness, joe k ooooooo0oooo0o. Buy being and nothingness book online at low prices in india. The events of being or nothingness form only a small portion of ronsons book. Jeanpaul sartre, the seminal smartypants of midcentury thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of being and nothingness in 1943. It is a short hardcover book, in which the publisher info page was physically cut out. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will.
Essai dontologie phenomenologique, sometimes subtitled a phenomenological essay on ontology, is a 1943 book by philosopher jeanpaul sartre. In 1943, these themes were given largescale, systematic philosophical expression with the publication of being and nothingness. Being or nothingness hardcover january 1, 2007 by joe k. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. The next main thing we will be reading is sartres transcendence of the ego. Essai dontologie phenomenologique, sometimes published with the subtitle a phenomenological essay on ontology, is a 1943 book by the philosopher jeanpaul sartre. In the book, sartre develops a philosophical account in support of his. The book discusses, in a selfreferential, disjointed, and poetic way, the meaning of life, consciousness, selfidentity, religion, from what seems to be an existential perspective. In this way, disparate cousins are united via a common event, thereby raising a fugue of minds across the globe. The next chapters more specifically investigate madness in the form of psychopathy. The parts about b or n were most interesting to me, but the rest of the book does contain some interesting information as well as some uninteresting information. Christine daigle discusses some of the key concepts and ideas in sartres most important philosophical book. Is reading sartres being and nothingness worth the. The book is divided into an introduction and four main parts.
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